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kaiabwpdjqn··on Apple now allows iOS developers to send ads using push notifications
I would assume you could control the showing of ad notifications and non ad notifications separately as a user.
kaiabwpdjqn··on Scientists monitored brains replaying memories in real time
I wonder if you could measure someone remembering an incident, and then measure them remembering the same incident but with different imagined outcomes to find a sort of style gan embedding space for qualities of the memory?
kaiabwpdjqn··on Turn down the quantum volume
can you give an example of a linear programming task that is not currently practical to solve on classical computers but could become so with a huge speed up?
kaiabwpdjqn··on Discovering the brain’s nightly “rinse cycle”
I don’t suffer from insomnia but I imagine it to be torturous. I have to say I find it shocking that cutting out stimulants like coffee isn’t one of the first things people try when suffering insomnia with or without a doctor telling them too.
kaiabwpdjqn··on Cryptocurrency Now Fully Legal in South Korea
> bet 10 times

The point in option 1 and 3 is to illustrate that betting 10 times isn’t an option in many systems. You can’t say you should always do something because the risk reward is favorable. That’s still gambling, and sometimes a stupid decision.

The average outcome of a gamble is not the likely outcome of taking it. And even ignoring that, it’s still a gamble unless you can confidently run it at sufficient scale to hit the theoretical distribution.

kaiabwpdjqn··on Cryptocurrency Now Fully Legal in South Korea
I would argue “All on red” with known risks and rewards is more educated than a blind investment into a technology that you don’t even understand, which describes most speculative crypto investments by “laymen” as the op said
kaiabwpdjqn··on Cryptocurrency Now Fully Legal in South Korea
This is... false. For a number of reasons. Something can be economically rational at scale and still a gamble, because you do not have infinite funds. More importantly, past results are not indicative of future results in valuations. Thinking that a thing must increase in value because it increased in value previously is perhaps the dumbest fallacy in in finance possible.

Option 1: I offer you 99,999/100,000 chance to lose everything you have, And a 1/100,000 chance to get 100,001 times more. Expected value is net positive. And yet, you’d be pretty dumb to do it. Gambling.

Option 2: I offer you 9/10 chance to get 1.01x more. 1/10 chance to get 0x. Expected loss. Better than 50% odds of gain. Gambling.

Option 3: Coin toss. Triple your lifespan on heads. Die on tails. Definitely gambling.

kaiabwpdjqn··on Cryptocurrency Now Fully Legal in South Korea
Even taking into account the average losses at the casino, I won an average return of 350% playing roulette. To say that all gambling equates to gambling is just foolish.

It ain’t gambling if you win

kaiabwpdjqn··on No Ghost in the Machine
> You can simulate digestion with a turing machine all you want, but that simulation wont digest any food.

You could digest simulated food.

You could also build a machine stomach to digest real food.

If you found out you were a simulation you’d be looking pretty dumb right now

kaiabwpdjqn··on For Seoul’s poor, class strife in ‘Parasite’ is daily reality
Exactly. All of them were qualified for the jobs they did. They did a good job too. The daughter is a bit of an exception.

The daughter is constantly depicted at someone who is exceptionally talented, although has no paper credentials for the job she does. The family makes multiple comments about good she is at things and how she belongs in the wealthy lifestyle. When everyone is wading through the sewage water (motif for poverty) she sits sort of dry on the toilet just barely above the others (incredible scene imo). She does an excellent job. I think it’s to make a point about the lack of meritocracy even within class or something.

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